For $500/mo, geez

I don't know how long people will be willing to pay so much for something that is complex and expensive to develop and test, but extremely cheap to produce, to the point that we are talking about a few dollars a week when buying peptides on the gray market.

In terms of safety, empirically, it seems extremely safe for a molecule with such a strong and reliable effect. I bought some peptides and the most frustrating part of the whole endeavor was buying 5 ml syringes: local pharmacies require a prescription, but I managed to buy them on Amazon. When something is so easy to produce and distribute, we will have many more people buying peptides on the gray market (cheaper) and syringes on Amazon (faster).

I expect there will soon be a crackdown on the gray market, or at least an attempt at one, but how effective can the government be when no one has ever said, “I can't find cocaine tonight”?

Wegovy, not Ozempic. Ozempic is often on major prescription formularies while Wegovy isn't... same compound, but being overweight is considered "a choice" when it might not necessarily be in every case because moralizing judgements blaming certain patients but not others seems necessary to refuse to give everyone healthcare equally as a human right.

And it's still ~6000% more than much of the rest of the world.

Compounding brick and mortar, real pharmacies adding vitamin b12 are selling it for $250/month (4 weeks actually) simply because the prices are of the auto injector Novo Nordisk version is insane.

God bless capitalism... sell them cheap fatty food and then sell them drugs so they can remain healthy...

The 4-week Ozempic pen costs €78 in France when paying cash.